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#ELA#Literary devices
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1
The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”.
simile
hyperbole
allusion
irony
2
Awfully pretty
rhyme
allusion
simile
oxymoron
3
It's raining cats and dogs!
simile
hyperbole
personification
idiom
4
Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards
rhyme
alliteration
foreshadowing
repetition
5
“Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.”
pun
consonance
allusion
alliteration
6
Bed Bath & Beyond
onomatopoeia
pun
allusion
alliteration
7
"all the world's a stage."
metaphor
rhyme
allusion
simile
8
I’ve asked you not to do that a thousand times.
allusion
rhyme
hyperbole
consonance
9
Orson’s owl out-performed ostriches.
pun
allusion
alliteration
simile
10
The
------
of “The
Three Little Pigs
” is “taking your time to do something right pays off.”
theme
mood
tone
topic
11
3. Humpty Dumpty sat on a
wall
, Humpty Dumpty had a great
fall.
pun
hyperbole
rhyme
onomatopoeia
12
“Conscience is a man’s compass.” –
Vincent Van Gogh
metaphor
hyperbole
rhyme
allusion
13
Where do polar bears vote? The North Poll.
assonance
pun
consonance
onomatopoeia
14
“I can resist anything but temptation.” – Oscar Wilde
simile
paradox
metaphor
allusion
15
It was all a dream
I use to read word up magazine
alliteration
consonance
That one day my four children would
16
The ea
r
ly bi
r
d gets the wo
r
m
consonance
pun
assonance
onomatopoeia
17
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
irony
personification
allusion
simile
18
The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
alliteration
irony
simile
metaphor
19
“A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course.
hyperbole
repetition
irony
allusion
20
The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.
simile
allusion
diction
metaphor
21
The water well was as dry as a bone.
irony
alliteration
metaphor
simile
22
“M
e
n s
e
ll the w
e
dding b
e
lls.”
assonance
onomatopoeia
pun
hyperbole
23
“It went
zip
when it moved and
bop
when it stopped,”
pun
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
assonance
24
Describing the main idea of a story: Love =
theme
mood
tone
topic
25
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.” –
Emily Dickinson
onomatopoeia
metaphor
pun
epitaph